Archive for July, 2006

Visualization of Whole-Brain Connectivity

Growing up in the internet age, most of us are very familiar with network diagrams of all sorts. Indeed, this is also the age of the network. But surprisingly, while there are diagrams for almost every type of network you can conceive of, there is a remarkable lack of such diagrams for whole-brain […]

Much Ado About Mirror Neurons

Fewer “discoveries” in neuroscience have garnered more undue hype than that of mirror neurons. Discovered by some Italians in the late 90’s, mirror neurons were hailed as some major discovery. Here is an excerpt from an article written earlier this year by New York Times writer, Sandra Blakeslee:
“It took us several years to […]